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Publisher's description
gnome-vfs is a library of abstraction of the filesystem. gnome-vfs is a library of abstraction of the filesystem. It provides an abstraction layer for reading, writing and executing files. It is mainly used by the Nautilus file manager and other GNOME applications.A cause of confusion is the fact that the abstraction of the filesystem used by the Linux kernel is also called the virtual filesystem (VFS). This is however at a lower level.